Given recent events I thought it might be useful to try and get a few more sign ups. I posted a story on Slashdot ( https://slashdot.org/submission/6640685/time-lords-needed- ) - if you’ve got a sec please could you vote it up so we are more likely to get on the front page. Thanks.

Good work! It’s good to take any opportunity to get people interested in becoming a member of the pool and giving back to the community :smile:

Good initiative, but what about more local channels - especially in the regions that have very few servers. I doubt many of the local system admins, where I live, would visit slashdot very often.

Hi, good idea! I did manage to get a story in The Register here in the UK over the Christmas period but there didn’t seem to be a noticeable increase in sign ups! Maybe people weren’t reading over the break. I remembered someone mentioning Slashdot and the dates of previous articles about the NTP Pool seem to tie in pretty well with huge increases in pool signups. I’m not clued up on which sites are the best places to use in other countries, maybe people could try to get stories in their local ones and post here so as not to duplicate? Maybe Ask could email the existing server operators in the zones that are really low to see if they can advise which channels are good to use?

During last January to April the TW pool once dropped to only 1~2 IPv4 servers available, then in May I posted an article (surely in Chinese; web read-only version) in local console-based (login using telnet or ssh) bulletin board system. Now we have about 15 IPv4 servers in TW pool. In underserved pool, local supporter can help newcomers solve tuning problems, reducing the possibility of score drop and eventually removal out of the pool.

Sounds great! I’m also going to start campaigning people in Mainland China to join the pool during the Spring holiday, let’s wait and see.

Nice one, @alica - TW looks a lot healthier! Knowing where to find volunteers locally and being able to post in the local language is definitely important!

Could it be an idea to describe how the community will come together and help getting a zone running and how little it actually takes to run a time server? That is is not required to purchase expensive hardware and how far you can get with a humble ARM based machine like Raspberry Pi? .

[image] Hedberg: Could it be an idea to describe how the community will come together and help getting a zone running and how little it actually takes to run a time server? Yes! It’s hard to tell what will help. The Hacker News links brought surprisingly many people to read the posts here, but didn’t add a lot of servers. As someone else pointed out years ago one of the times the NTP Pool was referenced in a slashdot post it brought a tremendous number of servers. I suspect documentation and articles in languages other than English would be particularly helpful to expand our coverage of the world. I wish we could help more with that than what we already have on the NTP Pool website. (Actually, help managing and encouraging translations is something I really could use).

I’d love to join and add my server to the pool, but it seems to be impossible to become a member. I signed up days ago but it seems I have to receive a confirmation email before I can log into the ‘Manage servers’ section. I emailed ask@develooper.com yesterday for help, waiting for a reply.

I found my confirmation mail in the spam folder (using gmail).

Active server numbers looks pretty static

Server operators

zorko January 31, 2017, 12:01am 17

On topic:

I just made a post in another thread which actually is primarily for this one:

Topic		Replies	Views
Volunteer support help needed Announcements	1	981	July 7, 2019
Many (probably all) NTP servers in the Philippines don't work Server operators	56	2692	September 5, 2026
No PR action for project and dramatic reduction in the number of active servers Uncategorized	60	3227	January 7, 2020
Gradually add/remove server to/from pool in parallel to score increase/decrease Pool Development monitoring , dns	78	3285	August 22, 2024
CN pool collapse a few hours every day Server operators	47	2126	February 17, 2024

Active server numbers looks pretty static

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